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According to the complaint filed May 6 in Nashville Circuit Court, Yawn, while acting as the Zobrists’ marital counselor and executive director of Ben Zobrist’s charity, “usurped the ministerial-counselor role, violated and betrayed the confidence entrusted to him by the plaintiff, breached his fiduciary duty owed to the plaintiff and deceitfully used his access as counselor to engage in an inappropriate sexual relationship with the plaintiff’s wife.”

Since then, the case has taken highly unusual twists and turns. For a time, George Jackson was removed from representing his brother altogether and, separately, banned from entering the courthouse. He sometimes has failed to show up in court for trial dates. But Monday, as jurors were selected, it was the closest the case has come to an actual retrial in years.

“As a result of the explosion and fire, Rockton residents and others have experienced nuisance-level discomforts (respiratory difficulty, malodorous smell), their properties were covered with debris, and they generally have been impeded from using and enjoying their property, including their outdoor spaces,” the lawsuit alleges.

Gabriel Lopez, 12, a Chicago Public Schools student at Skinner North Classical Elementary School, gets a little help getting online from his father, Ramiro Lopez, on the first day of remote learning at their Chicago home, Sept. 8, 2020. (José M. Osorio/ Chicago Tribune)

In 2020, State Farm paid $189.4 million in Illinois for 23,650 wind claims, which include damage to homes and buildings from high winds, storms and tornadoes. Those numbers included the aftermath of a derecho in August, which brought severe wind and tornadoes to the area.

During a news conference Monday at Chicago Police Department headquarters, Brendan Deenihan, chief of detectives, described the video and said the killing stemmed from a “very minor” traffic crash. After that incident, Deenihan said, a group of people approached the vehicle.

Gasoline tankers pass by Colonial Pipeline storage tanks May 10, 2021, in Austell, Georgia. Colonial Pipeline paid cybercriminals a ransom of 75 bitcoin, then valued at roughly $4.4 million, to regain control of its computer system. Some of the funds were later recovered. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com/AJC/TNS)

Some aldermen said the city should sue the men who harassed the women, to try to get them to pay the settlements from their Fire Department pensions. But city attorney Renai Rodney said the city wouldn’t be successful in trying to recover the money, and would only spend more money trying in vain to do so.

First-year New York owner Steve Cohen hired law firm WilmerHale in March to review the organization and detailed changes he’ll make in an email to employees Monday, saying he wanted “to ensure that our community and culture will always be safe, respectful, and inclusive.” The email was obtained by The Associated Press.

Melody Billups, from left, and recent Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduates, Syncere Billups and Carrington Valentine and other family members are opening Breaking Point rage room. “We decided to do it in Homewood because we all live here,” Melody Billups said. “It’s a family business.” (Bill Jones / Daily Southtown)